Source: Sault Ste. Marie Democrat
Sault Ste. Marie, Chippewa County
December 29, 1887 Thursday

A despatch to the Herald announced that the last rail has
been laid on the MSSM&A, making a continuous line from Minne-
apolis to the "Soo." The Sault Ste. Marie branch of the CPR
reached that point upwards of a week ago. The DSS&A, from
Duluth along the south shore of Lake Superior, has reached the
"Soo" and the Grand Trunk is also looking forward to a connec-
tion with that place. In the meantime Sault Ste. Marie will
soon be the center of three great railroad lines which can-
not but give it importance as a business center. Two rail-
ways, the CPR and MSSM&A are now waiting for completion of
the International bridge there, which will be finished early
in January. When this takes place, the American Northwest
will have a more direct connection with Montreal and the sea-
board than by any other route. The International bridge and
the convergence at the "Soo'! of the lines of railways mention-
ed have caused that place to suddenly spring into importance.
It was formerly a Hudson Bay post, and has grwon into a small
village. Now that it has suddenly become a railroad center it
is growing rapidly and putting on town airs, and in due time
will want to become a city.

-Montreal Herald

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